Researchers have uncovered friction without contact—driven entirely by magnetic interactions. As two magnetic layers slide, ...

When load increases steadily, so does friction, but in the realm of magnetization dynamics, things aren’t so simple.

Researchers found friction can occur without contact, driven by magnetic dynamics, and does not always increase with load. The effect could enable controllable, wear-free technologies.

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The relationship between friction and load, quantified three centuries ago, has an exception when the interaction causes ...

(Nanowerk News) An interdisciplinary research team of the Institutes of Physical Chemistry and Physics of the University of Freiburg and the Max Planck Institute of Biophysics in Frankfurt-am-Main has ...

The friction between a silicon ball and silicon wafer was measured in the experimental set-up shown on the left. The new research demonstrates that there is a direct relation between two effects: the ...